Limitations of sodium-sulfur batteries and a promising solution Current sodium-sulfur battery designs suffer from poor conductivity, low efficiency, and various safety issues.

Sodium-sulfur batteries The team’s research highlights the effectiveness of the new carbon-sulfur material, which features nanopores estimated to be around 100,000 times narrower than a human hair.

Could sodium-sulfur technology transform energy storage? Duke Energy would like to know, which is why it's launching a pilot project to test the tech.

The result is a sodium-sulfur battery with a high capacity of 1,017 mAh g−1 at room temperature, which the team notes is around four times that of a lithium-ion battery.

Sodium-sulfur batteries have long offered high potential for grid-scale stationary energy storage, due to their low cost and high theoretical energy density of both sodium and sulfur.

Lavender oil could help solve a problem in the energy transition. A team from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has created a material from linalool, the main component of lavender ...

U.S. and European startups are racing to develop new batteries using two abundant, cheap materials — sodium and sulfur — that could reduce China's battery dominance, ease looming supply ...

Sodium-sulfur batteries are a promising alternative, but only for industrial settings--they operate at temperatures around 600 F, far too hot to sit in anyone's basement.

However, sodium-sulfur batteries can store less energy in relation to their weight than lithium batteries and are also not as durable. Lavender oil with its main component linalool could now help to ...